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AP bureaus will work with NowPublic communities in selected locations on ways to enhance regional news coverage, and national AP news desks also may tap the network in breaking news situations where citizen contributors may capture critical information an
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“To do UGC right is far from cheap. It takes good people and good software.”
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Bloggers and sites like youtube have huge audiences hungry for video. By allowing users to take it away, newspaper sites can reach out to those audiences. Great move.
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“Pithy, witty and provocative headlines–the pride of many an editor–are often useless and even counterproductive in getting the Web page ranked high in search engines. “
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“It’s also giving rise to an obsessive subculture of ordinary but surprisingly influential people who, usually without pay and purely for the thrill of it, are trolling cyberspace for news and ideas to share with their network.”
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This morning on my commuter train I noticed freesheets from last week still littering the floor. The additional rubbish created by freesheets is just one of the costs borne by us all…
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“There are clearly still many journalists who don’t quite understand the phenomenon of blogging and are willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater because there are some bloggers who they don’t like (and who don’t like them).”
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“frankly, that somebody studying journalism comes up with this twaddle did shock me a little (though, really, it’s not much of a surprise in retrospect).”
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They’ve got 25 staff, sifting through all that stuff…